Maze Patrol

A game that was due to be released from Ronald Mayer, who was an Austrian programmer of a large number of C64 games in the 80’s.

In a 2015 interview, Ronald reveals that Maze Patrol was to be his first full price game that would be released by Swiss company Linel.

Ronald recalled the following in the interview:

“I wrote the programme completely in assembler, drew a cover image – very demanding, it was week-long labour, but nothing emerged. That was my only game which was never released. It was called MAZE PATROL, no one knows about it… it was certainly one of the most extensive. That was a disappointment.”

The game was actually completed in 1987, after Linel approached Ronald to write the game. The game was completely written on spec, but when he gave them the finished game – they did nothing with it at all. Unfortunately he was never paid for his work either.

According to interviewer Christian Genzel, Ronald told him that the game was similar to his Hungry Hoodlum game – but he admitted it wasn’t a great game overall.